The lives we live today greatly mirror our childhood. Adverse events taken place in one’s childhood often reflects poorly upon an individual's adult life but not all people who have had an atrocious childhood feel urged to kill. So why do serial killers exist? Throughout the lives of three very horrifying serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Edmund Kemper have proved individually that humans are nurtured into developing an antisocial personality. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer born on May 21 1960 was nurtured into his cruel fantasies leading him to become America’s most notorious serial killer. Jeffrey had a content childhood up until the age of about six years old when the value of life then began to depreciate. Jeffrey wanted to have a secure …show more content…
He was the weird kid that no one wanted to be seen with and this made it nearly impossible for Jeffrey to learn any social skills. Dahmer grew up in a home full of neglect. His father worked a lot leaving no time for his son and at the age of six Jeffrey’s mother gave birth to his younger brother David, which turned all her attention to the newborn. In 1978 Jeffrey’s parents got a divorce. Both mother and father fought over who David would live with but neither cared where Jeffrey would go. This made him feel remarkably unloved. Years later Jeffrey was living in the basement of his grandmother’s house. His grandmother began to get sick of all of his absurdity resulting in asking him to move out. Once again Jeffrey felt unloved and rejected. Harry F. Harlow explains that children look to their caregiver for basic needs as well as to feel love, acceptance, and affection. After Harlow did the motherless monkeys experiment, it was found that the monkeys whose mothers did not meet the needs for their child constructed the children to grow to become violent and even kill their own children. Considering Jeffrey Dahmer had no one close in his life to give him a child's needs it could very likely be one of the reasons why Jeffrey felt urged to commit his murders. This also portrays certainty of being nurtured into inhumane …show more content…
Ed’s father abandoned him when he was at a young age, so he grew up with his mother and his two sisters. Although before his father left his mother always accused Ed’s father of being too nice to his son and not nice enough to his daughters. Ed’s mother was quite scared of him, so in order to protect herself and his two sisters she would lock Ed in the basement with the kitchen table dragged over the only exit. According to Charles Cooley “we actually become the kind of person we believe others see us to be.” Cooley explains this as Looking Glass Self because Ed grew up to believe his mother's opinion of him being a monster he grew to become a monster. Also, Ed shown a form of
Krafft-Ebing (1886) found that the serial killer had been through cruelty of animal; enjoy the torture and the pain of their victim during his or her childhood period. Moreover, the mothers of these serial killers were most of time working or doing other things and usually the father were absent. These children experience rejection and lack of attention, therefore, this child grows up having low self-esteem. Research show that adults that gone through abuse and violent behavior during their childhood were three times more likely to become violent as adult more than the non abused adults (Dutton & Hart, 1992).
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer came into the world at 4.34pm on the 21st of May at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee 1960. Little did his parents know at the time of his birth that there son would become one of America's most infamous serial killers, not only for the amount of victims which he had killed, but also for dismembering them and his odd tendencies. Jeffrey's childhood started like any other, he had two parents who loved and adored there son dearly. They would give him what ever his heart desired. Joyce Dahmer started a scrap book on her son recording events that happened in his life, his first step, his first accident, his first tooth, his first haircut and even his first scolding. While Jeffrey was still very young his father worked long hours in his laboratory and his mother worked as a machine instructor. But the carrying of Jeffrey had been hard on Joyce Dahmer and every little thing seemed to annoy her. So Lionel being the husband that he was and wanting the best for his wife decided to move to his mothers house in West Allis, but the crack's in the marriage started to show early.
The case of whether serial killers are born with the lust to kill or if they are truly victims of their environment has been a hot debated question by both psychologists and the FBI today. A serial killer is traditionally defined as one that kills 3 or more people at different times with “cooling off” periods in between kills. Both psychological abuse as a child and psychological disorders are to blame for the making of a killer. The nature vs. nurture debate is best applied to the mysterious behaviors and cases of serial killers and their upbringing and environment. Nature is the genetic and biological connections a person has, personality traits, and how genetic make-up all relates to a killer. Nurture is examining the upbringing and environment that a person is around that affects what a person becomes. In some cases however, the effects of only upbringing or only biological problems were the reasons certain serial killers committed crimes. Although there is no definitive answer to what plays the bigger role: nature or nurture, they both are contributing factors that make a serial killer. These deviants of society are afflicted with problems in either their upbringing or have psychological disorders, and are able to blend into our everyday lives with no apparent differences, yet they wreck havoc through their unremorseful killings.
Jeffrey Dahmer was an eccentric individual. He was known to be a kind man but very disturbed as well. He showed to be anti-social at a very young age, and it continued to get worse. He must have had cognitive issues that grew with him even until his last murder. Being raped, always feeling abandoned, rejected, growing up with fighting parents, and also a lack of parental guidance didn’t help Dahmer grow up to be the “perfect” child. He learned by observing his environment, and taking these actions to heart, and affecting him in the worse possible way. He expressed his feelings in a physical way, like an infant growing up. Jeffrey used touched to convey his feelings. He was an alcoholic with temperament problems. He also struggled with
Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the first of two children born. His parents were Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. His parents didn’t have any notable mental history. He was said to have lived a normal childhood. He was never abused. When he was six years old his family moved to Doylestown, Ohio. His shyness disabled him from making friends at his new school. Later that year his brother was born. That is where thing seemed to change for Jeffrey. One of his teachers said he was feeling neglected. Most of the attention had to go to his new brother because they had to care for him more. That same year he had a hernia. He began to withdraw from social interactions after the surgery. He showed little interest in hobbies and
His father had moved out of the family home and into a hotel upon their separation. Dahmer's father was unaware that his ex-wife had moved out also, taking their younger son David with her to Wisconsin. She left Jeffrey to live there alone. Upon gaining this knowledge Jeffrey's father moved back into the house with him. However, before this time and shortly after high school graduation Jeffrey, having been isolated and left alone, had the time to fantasize how he would go about killing his first victim.
"My consuming lust was to experience their bodies. I viewed them as objects, as strangers. It is hard for me to believe a human being could have done what I've done (Dahmer)." Jeffrey Dahmer was a narcissist, a necrophiliac, somewhat of a sadist and a cannibal. In many ways he fit a typical sexual serial killer profile, but in some ways he didn’t. By the time of his apprehension, Dahmer had sodomized, murdered, and cannibalized at least seventeen men, mostly black, Hispanic or Asian, in the Milwaukee area between the years of 1978 until his arrest in 1991 (Anonymous, 2010).
In the meantime, his dad was seeking after his doctoral for science in Iowa which constrained the time Lionel had with his family. At age five, Dahmer 's younger sibling was conceived and that was the point at which the sentiment disregard set in him. Surprisingly, the little consideration gave from his guardians must be imparted to his sibling David. Dahmer started showing compelling timidity additionally extreme fits of rage. Amid the ages of six and seven, Dahmer "was viewed by other youngsters as odd and odd (Martens, 2005)." Even however he didn 't demonstrate any enthusiasm for creating honest to goodness social relations, Dahmer demonstrated an interest with bug and creature dismemberments. At the point when Dahmer was six he had "experienced hernia surgery, when he woke up from the anesthesia he was concerned somebody could have cut his privates, the agony went on for one week and after a long recuperation period his guardians recall that he swung to be extremely introvert (Giannetakis, n.d.)." It is believed that at age eight Dahmer had been sexually mistreated by a kid in his neighborhood (Hickey, 2013). On the off chance that this occasion
Jeffrey Dahmer’s last crime occurred over twenty years ago, but his name will forever be known. Jeffrey Dahmer started killing for the first time right after he graduated from Revere High School in 1978. Eighteen year old Steven Marks Hicks was hitchhiking to a concert close by Chippewa Lake Park in Wisconsin. His parents knew he was a night-owl, so when they never received a call from Hicks, they assumed he was fine and did not call because he simply forgot. “After killing Steven, he dismembered the body with a carving knife.
Jeffrey Dahmer was born May 21st, 1960, the first child for Lionel and Joyce Dahmer, after a difficult pregnancy that had Joyce on various prescription drugs.
“I think in some way I definitely wanted it to end, even if it mean’t my own destruction.” He said. Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the most notorious serial killers in the history of wisconsin. Jeffrey Dahmer otherwise known as The Milwaukee Cannibal was born on May 21st 1960. Nobody knew he in the future would become a killer.
Mr. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (wikipedia.org). Eight years later, his family moved to Bath, Ohio. He was a very shy young boy who often collected dead animals and showed signs of necrophilia at an early age. No one could have predicted that Jeffrey Dahmer would commit 17 murders during his lifetime which, in trial, were proven to have been driven by necrophilia and his own homosexuality.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a male and committed the first murder when he was 18-years-old in the summer of 1978. He had never married and was a homosexual. He was a middle socioeconomic status and unsuccessful both education and occupation. He worked as a worker at Chocolate factory. He had normal and happy childhood which differed from the childhood of most serial killers. In his family interview of his child...
Tracy was forced into Dahmer’s bedroom with a butcher knife, but he eventually escaped and flagged down police who would arrest Jeffrey. Upon arrival, the police found Polaroid pictures of Jeffrey’s victims as well as skulls and a human heart in his freezer, resulting in his arrest (Jeffrey- Crime Museum). Jeffrey Dahmer was tried in January of 1992, when he was convicted of seventeen murders of different young men. He was sentenced to fifteen life terms, for a total of nine hundred and fifty-seven years in prison. Jeffrey was later attacked and slaughtered by another inmate in November 1994
Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer active between 1978 and 1991, during which time he murdered 17 young men. His first crime took place when he was 18 and living with his family in Ohio. Just weeks after graduating high school, he picked up a hitchhiker and took him back to his parents’ house. When the man attempted to leave, Dahmer struck him in the head with a barbell and killed him. This first victim was dismembered and buried in the nearby woods. As Dahmer was driving with the body parts in black garbage bags in his backseat, he was pulled over for crossing the centerline. As the officer wrote the ticket, he asked what was in the bags. Dahmer said he was taking garbage to the dump, and the officer allowed him to go on his way (McGregor, 2005). It would be the first of many missed opportunities by law enforcement to stop Dahmer’s impending murder spree.